Combining conceptual, personal and archival photographic approaches, Iñaki Bonillas investigates the materiality and semiotic depth of the medium. The two works presented at Art Basel 2021 were part of his last exhibition at ProjecteSD, "Journal of (Un) remarkable events" (2020). The works use a set of images of the artist's personal archive, the amateur photographs that he himself took around 25 years ago. The result is a sort of intimate journal fragmented. Seven “Books of Hours”, one for each day of the week. Large illuminated books from which the text has been withdrawn, to leave only the images, that work like windows that revolve around a void, as if they were large wall clocks, in which each hour is an opening to the world. 

Renowned and celebrated in the Netherlands since the sixties, Dutch artist Daan van Golden (1936, Rotterdam; 2017, Schiedam) is known for his meticulous paintings of motives and details of everyday life and every day images. Van Golden prioritizes close observation over imaginative invention and finds his subject matter ‘readymade’ in his daily experience of the world. If his work is in dialogue with Pop or Conceptual art, minimalism or appropriation, it has always been careful to keep its serene independence.

The photographic set "Insel Hombroich" shows the artist’s young daughter, Diana. This is part of one of van Golden’s most important works, the series called "Youth Is an Art" featuring more than one hundred photographs of Diana from her birth (1978) through the age of eighteen (1996). The photographic series shows an instant in the daily life of Diana, doing a cartwheel in front of an Yves Klein painting in one of the rooms at the Insel Hombroich museum in Germany. We see van Golden relishing his child, we see his attitude toward the role of art in life, and his appreciation of time and place. It is a clear example of van Golden’s counterpoint to his pictorial practice, that reinforces the intimate resonance that van Golden constructs between art and existence.

Pieter Vermeersch's work has evolved consistently through a strong and unbreakable single mindedness of artistic vision. Colour and light, time and space and the intersection of these intangible elements are the notions that have been explored by the Belgian artist since the very beginning of his career in the late nineties. An artistic research that continues, flowing and expanding with the experimentation on new materials. 

Pieter Vermeersch has been fascinated by geology since he was a child. For his works on marble, he uses the stone as the canvas. The artist senses a cosmic dimension in marble, which is the result of crystallised time. The stone is millions of years old and is built up from a chance series of moments we can never trace. It is this immense, ungraspable temporal dimension that fascinates him. Confronted with these geological layers accumulated on the stone, Vermeersch takes on a modest gesture, a simple a touch or a stroke of paint on the stone that adds a moment to it: a new layer, that of the present. The touch of paint is an overture to the stone – a way of merging with it. 

This new series of works on bedsheets was presented for the first time at Mullican’s show at ProjecteSD, “Representing the Work” in November 2018. The complete work is an installation mosaic of 64 iconographic illustrations that catalogue the principal chapters of his work. 

When Matt Mullican recalls his 1977 Hallwalls performance "Going to Heaven", he says: “There's a ball. I am the center of the ball and the ball is all that exists, that is the known universe. And as my feelings changed the colors in the ball wouldchange. If I was happy the world would turn yellow. If I was sad it would turn blue. What was happening was that there was a kind of a feedback between what I saw and what I felt. That was the end of the performance. It lasted about maybe two minutes and was finished. And that was really the beginning of the Heaven pictures…. The sign for Heaven is the target. A target which is the mind. What the mind does by itself, that is Heaven.”